If I’m not mistaken, the pedaling accomplishes two purposes here. One is to move forward, the other is to spin the blade. It comes via CHAUSS513’s photostream on Flickr.
From That Which Rolls
This idea from a photo posted by scrannel on photobucket kinda defeats the point . . .
Do you have a non-grid, non-fossil fuel based solution to lawn mowing?
Bjorn from Snack On Design is working on a magazine. The first issue is about the Brisbane fixed gear community. To get the name circulating he and Nathan shot a little something.
Popout
Nathan&Machine from Bjorn Rust on Vimeo.
The videos are primarily from mobile phones and do not have the same high quality as regular videos, but the format provides an authentic concert feel. It may make some watchers a bit seasick, but all in all, this format is a great concept.
Bloc Party knows how to keep fans interested, and this new release is no exception.
Here is an infrared photo of the yesterday's Atlantis launch. It was taken from the wilderness of Cabo Cañaveral as she cleared the tower on its mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
After half a century of searching, scientists have finally discovered what happens to the world’s second largest shark every winter: It has a Caribbean hideout.
Basking sharks, which can grow up to 33 feet long and weigh more than a Hummer H1, spend the late spring, summer and early fall in the temperate regions of the world’s oceans. But then they pull their great disappearing act, eluding scientists throughout the winter months.
See full article here....
Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.
Yooouuutuuube.com! You can now watch every frame of a Youtube video play simultaneously. This remix of Alice in Wonderland is awesome!
The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization is proud to present
The 5th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
This Saturday, May 9th 2009 from 12-6PM
On Havemeyer St. Btw. Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave.
In Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NYC
Papergirl #3 from Papergirl on Vimeo.
London based film director Helena Brooks has got some awesome work including two short films, commercials and more recently completed a a documentary for 180 Amsterdam, Inside The Black Jersey.
Her second short film, Nothing Special was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and won Best Short Film at the Cinéma des Antipodes. In the film Billy becomes the reluctant subject of worship when his delusional mother decides he is Jesus reincarnate.
Watch it here.... (for it is awesome!)
Gretchen Robbins, of Winthrop, Maine, smiles while hugging Sarah Reece of Los Angeles, after Maine's House members gave final approval to a same-sex marriage bill at the State House in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday, May 5, 2009. ( AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
Today the state of Maine Legislature gave their approval of gay marriage. Although there were enough votes to pass the measure, there were not enough to override the "undecided" Gov. John Baldacci, who has 10 days to take action on the bill, if he chooses to veto. However, if he signs it into law, Maine would join Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut and Vermont.
The decision of California's Prop 8 still is in the hands of the state's supreme court. Chatter among Prop 8 internet groups suggest that the announcement is either coming tomorrow or next Monday.
UPDATE: Governor John Baldacci signed the bill into law.
I went to the Pecha Kucha in Brisbane and it was awesome. So all you VC peeps need to get along to this...
French Kicks "Abandon" from THE FEAR on Vimeo.
From the album “Swimming”
Director: Austin Peters
Director of Photography: Keegan Gibbs
Editor: Evan Romoff
Producers: Nick Panama and Daniel Pappas
Executive Producer: David Moshe
Art Director: Dylan Lynch
Assistant Director: Jake Sumner
Set Decorator: Brooke Wolin
Costumes: Alex Orley
Gaffer: Jake Hanly
Key Grip: Harry Schlieff
Assistant Camera: David Kupferberg
Titles: Sebastian Pardo
If Robinson Crusoe were to have a bike, today he would have made it at Bamboo Bikes Studio. The weekend workshop allows you to build your own bamboo dream bike, helping out Mother Nature while kitting yourself out with a sustainable, one-of-a-kind bicycle.
Bamboo Bikes' mission is pretty simple. Their goal is to provide cyclists the experience of building their own ride from scratch, while also advancing sustainable development by financing bamboo bike factories in Africa and South America. The project provides real and long-term economic inputs while delivering an affordable, socially beneficial product back to their own communities.
OMG!! This is one sexy camera.
With a production run limited to only 500 units , this special-edition “Safari” includes as well as the olive green painted LEICA M8.2 and the silver anodised finished LEICA ELMARIT-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH.lens, an exclusive Billingham camera case and an elegant carrying strap, bearing an embossed Leica logo.
My birthday is coming up in case anyone is feeling super generous!
Leica
Blockbuster drop box oven bakes delicious cakes!
It's simple and ingenious: A coal pit rests at the bottom, with the cakes and pans resting on fridge trays inside. The box's back door is the oven door, and the whole thing is sealed with wet cloths. The cake it produced is quote, "fabulous."
Can anyone explain how the hell it got to Liberia?
[Afrigadget via The Gadgets Boing]
Dreamlike video by young filmmaker Jeff Desom for Hauschka's Morgenrot, from his new album Ferndorf (FatCat Records):
Film by Jeff Desom
Music by Hauschka
Taken from sepia images of early 20th century New York, Jeff Desom on making the video:
“The finished animation is mostly made from early twentieth century photographs that I found while browsing through the vast collection of the U.S. Library of Congress. I also used old postcards from New York that I purchased at a flea market in Paris. Most of the time I would only zoom into a tiny portion of the picture and utilise that as my frame.
“The hardest part was to make it look as if it had been pasted together from a lost reel depicting this curious experiment where they’d lightened up a piano and thrown it off a building only to see what would happen. The kind of unnecessary crash test executed under the sole purpose of drooling over the beauty of slow motion.”
Interview with Jeff Desom from PromoNews
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